Hiscox
Big Interview: Jon Dye, Hiscox
Jon Dye, CEO of Hiscox UK, sits down with Harry Curtis to discuss the business’s growth prospects, its ongoing digital trading efforts and new look C-suite.
Big Interview: Nick Turner, NFU Mutual
Nick Turner, group CEO of NFU Mutual, sits down with Harry Curtis to explain the insurer's growth ambitions, what it's like running a mutual, and how it serves rural communities.
Hiscox sets sights on 5%-15% retail growth after subdued 2023
Hiscox is aiming to grow its UK retail business by 5% to 15% in 2024, after new business growth in 2023 fell “below management expectations”.
Aviva and Howden partner; Ecclesiastical’s Cockrem to retire; Eurochange to launch travel insurance
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Campaigners unleash ‘digital mayhem’ on insurers
Three insurance firms have been digitally targeted by climate activists over their refusal to rule out support for fossil fuel projects.
RSA’s Frost named COO for Hiscox UK
Hiscox has appointed RSA’s mid-market managing director Cath Frost as UK chief operating officer, effective from 15 April.
RSA to be ‘number one’ in commercial lines by end of 2025
RSA will be the best commercial lines and specialty insurance company by the end of 2025, according to Ken Norgrove, the provider’s CEO.
Admiral partners with Google Cloud for new products
Admiral has struck a deal with Google Cloud, which will see the technology giant host the provider’s policy management and billing platforms plus use generative artificial intelligence to produce new products and services.
Q&A: Alina Jipa, RSA
RSA’s chief of staff, Alina Jipa, shares ways to tackle insurance’s boring image and improve the sector’s career path.
Hiscox CEO highlights what’s next after Google collaboration
Hiscox’s London Market CEO shares why responsible tech development was paramount, and when the firm will roll out its AI underwriting model across the wider industry.
New year, new shape of the City for insurers
As Lloyd’s stays put in Lime Street and Aviva kicks off 2024 in a new City HQ, Emma Ann Hughes examines how insurers are reshaping the square footage they occupy in the Square Mile.
Most-read insurance stories in 2023 revealed
Like Cher, Insurance Post is turning back time to remember the industry Consumer Duty’s efforts, business interruption cases continuing to rumble on, developments at Direct Line, RSA’s personal lines exit, plus the other major insurance events of the…
Insurtech Review of the Year 2023
2023 will be remembered as the year the insurtech funding bubble burst but looking ahead to 2024 players in this part of the market expect providers to realise it is easier to buy systems than build them.
Hiscox and Google collaborate; Axis syndicate; Biba’s 2024 conference theme
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Climate activists paint the city ‘blood red’
Protestors from Money Rebellion, the sister group of Extinction Rebellion, have targeted the offices of UK-based insurance companies in London, Reading, Leeds, Leicester and Colchester.
Top 50 Reinsurers of 2023 revealed
Munich Re remained in first place of Insurance Post’s Top 50 Reinsurers 2023 list, with Swiss Re and Hannover Rück SE joining Munich Re on the podium this year.
Hiscox on the limitations of AI technology
Regulations, accuracy and ensuring humans are kept accountable are some of considerations insurers have been warned to factor in to ensure success with artificial intelligence.
What NFTs mean for fine art insurance
Analysis: Edmund Tirbutt examines what the advent of non-fungible tokens means for insurers, and whether the industry is designing an array of cover for this emerging art form.
Allianz's Graham Gibson, Aviva, NFU and Zurich among winners at 2023 Claims & Fraud Awards
Allianz chief claims officer Graham Gibson, pictured, won the prestigious Achievement Award at the Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards yesterday evening (5 October) at The Brewery.
View from the top: Hiscox’s Fiona Mayo on why more technology shouldn’t mean less humanity
Fiona Mayo, Hiscox marketing director, says that increasing automation all too often results in treating humans like numbers.